Rubie's Official Doctor Who Cyberman, Adult Costume - Standard Size

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The original helmets and chest units were constructed by Bill King of Trading Post. This freelance company largely were involved in boat building but also manufacturered fibreglass items for television and film. Their armour is often depicted as flexible and resistant to bullets, but can be penetrated by gold arrows and projectiles made of gold. The Cybus Cybermen are bullet-proof and are very resilient, but are not indestructible – they are vulnerable to high explosives, electromagnetic pulses, specialised weaponry and Dalek weapons. For the Brain of Morbius, Herbert Johnson were commissioned to make a similar style hat from plush fur felt in a dark bottle green colour again at least three of these would have been made this hat was then used in conjunction with the brown hat up to "Armageddon Factor" from then through to "Horns of Nimon" only the brown hat was used. The Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker) is next to encounter a group of Cybermen in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975). These Cybermen are depicted as the wandering remnants of a fallen empire, ravaged by the so-called Cyber-Wars against victorious humanity, which had exploited the Cybermen's weakness to gold. These Cybermen attempt to restore the glory of their race by destroying the gold-rich asteroid Voga.

Parkin, Lance & Pearson, Lars (2012). A History: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe (3rd Edition), p. 48. Mad Norwegian Press, Des Moines. ISBN 978-193523411-1.

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The Cybermen also feature in the Titan Comics 2016 multi-Doctor event story Supremacy of the Cybermen, which depicts the last Cybermen at the end of the universe forming an alliance with Rassilon- after he was exiled from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor in " Hell Bent"- with the goal of conquering Gallifrey and using Time Lord energy to regenerate the universe into one under Cyber-control. Although Rassilon's insight allows the Cybermen to conquer history and defeat all of the past Doctors, the Twelfth Doctor is able to convince Rassilon to help him after the Cybermen betray Rassilon, the two turning the Cybermens' equipment against them so that the universe is 'regenerated' to a point before the Cybermen conquered Gallifrey, with only the Twelfth Doctor (and possibly Rassilon) remembering these events. An upgraded form of cybermats appeared in " Nightmare in Silver". They were incredibly small mechanical insects that were more versatile and were able to partially convert other lifeforms into Cybermen. They were referred to as cybermites. The gloves are another story. They ended up looking all right, but they're a huge pain in the ass to get on. One of the nice things about choosing a Cyberman for a costume is that they appear different each time the monsters are resurrected on Doctor Who, so you have a lot of leeway in terms of design choices, and a lot of incarnations from which to draw inspiration. For me, the most important features to signify a Cyberman are the "handles" on their heads and the distinctive "teardrop" design of the eye holes (not yet present on the actual Moonbase Cyberman designs, and my primary reason for not trying to copy them exactly). The chest console of the Cyberman consists of a screened central box, flanked by two... things with buttons on them? Or something?

The revived programme Cybermen electrocute their victims by touching them and at first carried no other weaponry. In "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", the Cybermen are equipped with retractable energy weapons housed within their forearms (these were actually first shown in " The Age of Steel", but only very briefly and were not used during that episode), but also use advanced human weapons to battle the Daleks. The arm mounted guns prove effective against humans but are unable to penetrate Dalek shields. Two Cybermen sent to parley with Dalek Thay at the Battle of Canary Wharf shot the Dalek but were promptly exterminated. In the Torchwood episode " Cyberwoman", the partially converted Lisa Hallett used her electrical touch against the Torchwood team, as well as an energy beam fired from her arm which could only stun the part of the body at which it was aimed. In " The Pandorica Opens", the Cybermen again have the wrist-blaster, but also regain the modified human weapons. In " Nightmare in Silver", the Cybermen have the ability to move at a warp-like speed. At this speed they appear as blurry after images. Cyberman had also overcome the weakness of solely being able to convert human-like species; the Doctor had been safe from being in danger of conversion until this point. The Cybermen have seen many redesigns and costume changes over Doctor Who 's long run, as well as a number of varying origin stories. In their first appearance, The Tenth Planet (1966), they are humans from Earth's nearly identical "twin planet" of Mondas who upgraded themselves into cyborgs in a bid for self-preservation. Forty years later, the two-part story, " Rise of the Cybermen" and " The Age of Steel" (2006), depicted Cybermen invented again in a parallel universe London as a business corporation's attempt at upgrading humanity. Doctor Who audio dramas, novels, and comic books have also elaborated on existing origin stories or presented alternatives. The 2017 episode, " The Doctor Falls", explains the different origins as parallel evolution, due to the inevitability of humans and human-like species attempting to upgrade themselves through technology; this perspective resolves continuity differences in the Cybermen's history. a b Tynan, Alexandra; Cook, Benjamin (November 2016). "The Cybermum". Doctor Who Magazine. No.504. Tunbridge Wells: Panini UK Ltd. p.17. The use of the Controller body also explains why in the Mystery photo the chest unit is wrapped round the body with an elastic band - the Cyber Controller never had a chest unit, so there would have been no attachment points on the fabric. This makes the unit hang lower and adds to the unusual appearance as it becomes more like a "belly unit".Pixley, Andrew; Morris, Jonathan; Atkinson, Richard; McGown, Alistair; Hadoke, Toby (25 January 2017). "A Good Man Goes to War: Production". Doctor Who The Complete History. Vol.68. Panini Magazines/ Hachette Partworks Ltd. p.23. RT 8th Doctor Comic strip - Dreadnought Part 1". Archived from the original on 2 May 2006 . Retrieved 6 November 2005. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

The third model, seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, was a much larger, snake-like cybermat that could be remotely controlled and could inject poison into its victims. It had no visible eyes or other features, and was as vulnerable to gold dust as the Cybermen were. The chest unit pictured in this shot does not belong to either the head or the body. The chest unit is from The Invasion, which was made a season later than the other bits, and would have been built around August 1968. In fact, not even the helmet would be correctly dated to 1967 because The Wheel in Space was not in production until April 1968. Our brave Conservators have battled two iconic villains of the Doctor Who series in preparation for their display in the Science Fiction exhibition and the BBC 100 Anniversary showcase at the Science Museum. The bulk of the Cyberman costume is from The Moonbase as with the other hybrids but the head is from the most recent television serial: The Invasion. Although "recent" in this context means five years before the photo was taken! The difference in age between the body and head was only two years! a b "BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 6, the Invasion, Episode 7, the Invasion: Episode 7". 14 December 1968.Pixley, Andrew; Morris, Jonathan; Atkinson, Richard; McGown, Alistair; Hadoke, Toby (5 October 2016). "Revenge of the Cybermen: Pre-production". Doctor Who: The Complete History. Vol.23. Panini Magazines/ Hachette Partworks Ltd. p.61. Infamous for terrifying BBC viewers, the imposing 6ft 2” Cyberman costume had the Conservation Team hiding behind our sofas for other reasons. Over time, the composition of spray paint, aging plastics and embrittled fabric had caused stability issues to the costume. Flaking paint, fabric tears and delaminating rubber were all consequential of the aging materials. The Cybermen costumes were also notoriously warm for actors to wear so over time, sweat is likely to have contributed to the embrittlement of the fabric. Close up of Cyberman costume as used in the T.V. series ‘Dr Who’ made by the B.B.C., London, c.1988. Science Museum Group The photos on the day were taken by Allan Ballard, a notable photographer who would go on to have a high profile career in music and fashion. For the 1973 Anniversary his images provided added quality to the special publication. He photographed a number of companions in interesting locations with a variety of old monster costumes.